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Studies of obese children reveal body-weight control hormone

--plays an unanticipated role in body weight control in humans, Rudolph Leibel of Columbia University in New York wrote in a Preview. The findings also highlight an important point, he added, for the study of human physiology: "Carefully selected human subjects can reveal processes/mechanisms not discoverable (or even present) in an experimental animal."


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